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After my second or third child the hospital staff talked me into getting rubella, because if I ever had another child and I was exposed that child would die in utero.  The place on my forearm where I was given the injection formed a cyst.  Occasionally my arm aches and the cyst shrinks.  It is very small now. 

 

 

Eta: This was 14-17 years ago.

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Interesting - this makes me think - I don't have my personal immunization record anywhere, I don't think.  Maybe I should ask my mom for it.  Nobody is keeping track of what boosters I might need or any of that.  If I ever needed to prove vaxes for anything, I hope they wouldn't make me get re-poked for the whole list!

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Myself, I probably had a tetanus shot when I cut my finger about 15 years ago.  Before that, the last shot I remember getting was in elementary school - where they used to line us up for boosters at school.  That would have been roughly 40 years ago.

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Last year for tetanus. It had been 9.5 years and my family lives on a farm and I'm a klutz and always getting poked with rusty nails and stuff when I visit, so I definitely didn't want to let it go past 10. I got the TDaP, but it was the tetanus I was really concerned about. 

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 If I ever needed to prove vaxes for anything, I hope they wouldn't make me get re-poked for the whole list!

 

They will make you get titers, which is a blood draw. I had to get them done last spring for school even though I had my shot records. The only ones I didn't have to do were DTaP because I'd gotten a booster for that in 2015.

 

What particularly annoyed me was that I had to get a Hep B titer even though I'd just gotten the full 3 dose series in 2015. I'm not sure why that wasn't considered sufficient. I can understand with the shots I got decades ago wanting titers but Hep B was recent.

 

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Interesting!  So there is no grandfather clause for vaxes if I ever decide to go back to school.  Not something I think about much.  :P

 

I wonder what else would require an older person to have proof of vaxes.  Living in an assisted living facility??

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Tdap during every pregnancy...so 18ish months ago.

I'm surprised at this and the pp who mentioned getting these boosters with every pregnancy. The boosters aren't recommended that frequently--do OB's just order them without bothering to find out whether a patient has had one in recent years?

 

Yes a pregnant women should be up to date, but if she just got a booster two years ago she is already up to date.

 

Eta guess this is the current recommendation as pertussis antibodies decrease even 1 year post vaccination.

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6207a4.htm

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Interesting!  So there is no grandfather clause for vaxes if I ever decide to go back to school.  Not something I think about much.  :p

 

Depends on what you're studying. Speech & language pathology is considered "allied health" since many SLP students intern in hospitals, rehab centers, nursing homes, etc. Even if I intern at a school or for Early Intervention, I'd likely come into contact with medically fragile children. It makes sense to require SLP students to prove immunity to vaccine-preventable diseases. I just wish that the titers weren't so dang expensive!

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a few years ago when my tetanus required a booster. As a hiker and rock climber, I would be dumb to let that expire.

 

And 12 years ago a whole huge batch because immigration. Visitors can spread all manner of disease, but if you want to have a work permit, you need to have all kinds of vaccinations and health checks.Makes no sense, but you jump through whatever hoop they make you.

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